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Teale, William H. – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Examines word families, words grouped together by common meaning, orthography, form, and spelling. Discusses ways to encourage children's language acquisition and understanding of how words work in specific contexts. (HTH)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Elementary Education, Etymology, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedCarlisle, Joanne F. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1987
Normal students (N=65) in fourth, sixth, and eighth grades were compared to 17 learning-disabled ninth graders on learning derivational morphology and spelling derived forms. Disabled students' knowledge of derivational morphology was equivalent to that of normal sixth graders, but spelling of derived forms was equivalent to that of fourth…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Language Patterns, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedMarino, Jacqueline L. – Language Arts, 1980
Describes an informal study that yielded information about differences between good and poor sixth-grade spellers in their awareness that spelling involves prediction strategies and in their awareness of letter frequencies, pattern frequencies, and positional constraints on spelling. Outlines a few implications for spelling instruction. (GT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Games, Elementary Education, High Achievement
Download full textBuss, Carol A. – Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics (IDEAL), 1988
The importance of training second language learners in the patterns of occurrence of certain phonemes is discussed, focusing on the use of spelling as a primary predictor of pronunciation. Four different pronunciations of "ng" in English (as in "engaging, singer, changing, dangle") are used to illustrate this principle. A review of pronunciation…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedAmoroso, Henry C., Jr. – Research in Rural Education, 1985
Assesses the extent to which 30 third graders employ phonetically-based spelling strategies in representing synthetic words with high and mid front vowels. Finds spelling of good readers rule-governed and derived from judgement about language while that of poor readers showed less awareness of written language patterns. (LFL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Language Patterns
Avery, Peter; And Others – TESL Talk, 1987
The sound system of English is described in all its complexity, from the relationship between spelling and pronunciation to the rules of connected speech, focusing on the methods and rationale of teaching pronunciation of English, particularly to English as a second language learners. (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)
Graham, Bill – 1996
The guide contains 25 useful techniques for teaching literacy. It is designed for basic literacy instruction but may also be used in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction; three of the tools are specific to ESL students. Published sources that provide a fuller explanation of the techniques are listed after each entry and in a bibliography…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Aids, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
